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“More Than a Human Can Bear:” On Israel’s Systematic Sexualized Violence and the Silence That Enables It

The Palestinian Feminist Collective has issued a 200-page report on the sexualized and gendered violence perpetrated against the Palestinian people....

03.07.2026 10

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Lama Khouri

There are Tens of Thousands of Hind Rajabs

The UN has now found that Israel deliberately targeted Palestinian children. I read the report as a mother, against the speed with which we are...

26.06.2026 30

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Lama Khouri

Shallāl: On Water, Palestine, and the Grammar of the Unrelenting

There are mornings when what I feel is not grief exactly. It is rage that has nowhere to go. A need to climb the highest mountain and scream, not...

02.04.2026 30

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Lama Khouri

Resolution 2803: How the UN Security Council Legitimized Palestinian Children’s Death-Worlds

Three days before celebrating children's rights (November 20, 2025, marked 36 years since the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the...

24.11.2025 30

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Lama Khouri

The Necropolitics of Hunger: Man-made Famine and Futurity of the Palestinian Nation

While starvation profoundly affects individuals across all age groups, this essay focuses specifically on Palestinian children to illuminate how...

26.09.2025 40

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“Pull a Baby Out of Your Bag?” The Question That Exposes a Genocide 

“What are you going to do now, pull a baby out of your bag?" The guard's voice echoed through the marble halls of Capitol Hill, his words hitting me...

30.07.2025 30

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Lama Khouri